Twin Seams Mining Shay 5 (former Meadow River) working near Holt, AL in August 1962. This operation was a former Frisco line with wooden trestles with limited maintenance, so much so that crews wo... (more)

Stuff happens! You've heard the news, here is the visual. CP 8628 was the mid-unit on the westbound, and CP 8874 was the lead unit on the eastbound.

This is one of my favorite Pennsy photos. PRR EMD E8a 5768 and an EMD E7A pause at Englewood Union Station in southeast Chicago, making a station stop. Englewood was a major junction between the P... (more)

An A-B-B-A power consist of BN F units powers an officer's train at Roosevelt Road in Chicago. 744, 737, 705 and 766 form the classic streamliner lash-up

Oregon Sunset
A Union Pacific manifest freight from Roseville to Portland Terminal heads north through Oregon's Willamette Valley under golden cloudy skies.

The intent on that... (more)

#18 takes a spin on John's first visit to EBT. For more color views of this trip, click here

Pulled by a FT-FT-geep-geep-FT-FT set, a Northern Pacific freight heads westbound into Puyallup, WA, summer 1962. We were on our way to Seattle World's Fair. This is on NP main line east of Tacoma... (more)

The rear end helper on 671 shoves up, while further up the line the head end pulls like mad to get the loaded potash train up the hill. It's not often everything lines up like this!

One of earliest pictures I took - Challenger 3947 at an active coaling tower (notice guys on top of both boiler and tender) in either Sidney Neb, or Lodgepole NE, in NE Panhandle - in early fall o... (more)

A switcher places 3 covered wagons and one geep on the ready track at Collinwood for their last trip west to the scrapper. The 1792 is the renumbered 1648, the only F to get the blue paint.

It wasn't often that you could photograph the rear of an EMD SDP35, but the opportunity presented itself on this day in January 1967. The yard crew at Raleigh is in charge of the road power for p... (more)

A pair of Tennessee Railroad Alcos in Onedia, May 1973.

A small mixed train, known locally as the Virginia Creeper, gets an early start on the day and makes it's way through Fairview one cold blistery Winter's day. A scene reminiscent of her days in Vi... (more)

Seaboard Air Line No. 8, The Sunland, has already reached 79 mph leaving Raleigh, NC approaching New Hope Church Rd. Three E units handle the train today, led by E7 3018, followed by Seaboard's o... (more)